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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Add possibility to analyze deployed version if different technologies

As Instana is capturing the currently deployed version of a software, we would like use this information in order to search for vulnerable and outdated versions (in addition to a source-based dependency analysis). We did try to analyze the deploye...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

PowerVM - LPAR HA support

LPAR HA setup, when one LPAR from group scales so does also the other for consistency
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Adding sticky bits setgid and setuid on DB2 directories

System details: ITM version: 6.3.7 SP13OS: Linux OS RHEL 7.9TEPS-DB: DB2 v11.5.8.0TDW-DB: Oracle Database 19c We have received a security compliance finding related with DB2 world writeable directories. The following 2 directories are world writea...
9 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 4 Not under consideration

I would like to monitor the health of etcd in a Kubernetes/OCP cluster

As the beating heart of my cluster, I would like to be able to monitor the health metrics of the cluster's etcd database.
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Please support AWS Managed Grafana Datasource

We would like to create a feature Request for support of AWS Managed Grafana: https://aws.amazon.com/de/grafana/ A list of supported datasources you can find here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/grafana/latest/userguide/AMG-data-sources-builtin.html ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Set Action Concurrency per Policy

Customer is using Turbo to migrate VMs from one storage cluster to another. They want to set action concurrency via the UI for the automation policy without impacting the global concurrency settings. For their use case, they wanted to always see 5...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to freeze generated actions for a specific group

I would like the ability to freeze the generated actions for a specific group so that when we notify resources owners of the action a week prior, we take that specific action or none at all on their resource. For example: We sent out notifications...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 2 Not under consideration

Allow Account Administrator to delete any user created dashboards

As an account administrator, I am able to create and share dashboards to all users. Any user with the "workload optimizer observer" role is also able to create and share dashboards to all users. Occasionally, new users within turbo (IWO) create da...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Enable VM group creation by filtering on VMware Horizon Persistence state (Persistent vs Non-Persistent VM)

Being able to create Turbonomic groups based on whether a VM is a Persistent or Non-Persistent VDI instance would allow Turbo automation to be managed based on the instance type.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 0 Planned for future release

Move Pool Workstation without having to create Mirror Pool

We need to have the ability to move a Pool Workstation around between Dynamic Domain Managers (DDM) without having to create a mirror of it on the target DDM. This would be MDM to DDM or even DDM to DDM. The benefit of this would be to avoid all t...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration